fell into the hands of our acquaintance some information about the journal project:65 I understood it precisely as coming from you. But now I see quite clearly that it does not. It is understandable that everything I said on the occasion of the first supposition falls away once the opposite is established. Ah, this Yegor! I will give him a piece of my mind.

But the photographs and group picture are still nowhere to be found!66 I wrote to Nadezhda Konstantinovna too,—but haven't received an answer yet. Should I not write to sisters Yulia?

By the way, I received a letter dated 29. X (sic!*) from Yulia. He writes that he is living decently, they have all settled together (this is much more convenient and cheaper, and the kitchen arrangements have worked out more simply, of course, at the expense of their only "lady"), they have received their allowances, so he is in fine spirits and not downhearted in the slightest. A friend-poet** should arrive to visit me for the holidays in a few days, if he doesn't stand me up again. Anatoly is all worried about his wife, who has been put in Yeniseisk (for 3 months), the cells are cold, and she has also fallen ill.67

Dreadful! It would be much better to serve time in Russia!

Fedoseyev and Lyakhovsky don't write a word—the devil knows what is going on with them there!

I would like to have Saint-Simon, as well as the following books in French:
K. Marx. Misère de la philosophie. 1896. Paris. 3 frs. 50
Fr. Engels. La force et l'économie dans le
développement social. - - - 2. 50
K. Marx. Critique de la philosophie du droit
de Hegel. 1895. - - - 1.
all from the "bibliothèque socialiste internationale,"—from where also Labriola.

Yours in friendship. V. U.

in the journal

* - sic! Ed.

** This refers to G. M. Krzyzanowski. Ed.

Sent from the village of Shushenskoye to Moscow

First published in 1929

"Proletarskaya Revolutsiya" No. 2-3

Printed from the manuscript